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then teamsters' union president james hoffa. and later, the head of the consumer financial protection bureau updates congress on the progress of his agency. >> i think people really like to see how, where politicians' views have shifted over the years. i think people like to see whether mitt romney 1994 was campaigning for welfare reform, against welfare reform, for abortion. they want to see where he was doing it during his 2002 campaign, 2007. i think people really like to see how these politicians have evolved, and there's sort of an element to it that's almost a gotcha element, but there's also an element like people are like this is incredibly interesting. >> i've tried to think why it is that he has changed so often, why he finds it so difficult to come down on one side of an issue, instead sort of floats between both issues. ♪ >> as someone who's running for state office for the first time, does it help that your name is barack obama in terms of -- >> rod's a trailblazer and a hero of mine. >> i think the best way to de
then teamsters' union president james hoffa. and later, the head of the consumer financial protection bureau updates congress on the progress of his agency. >> i think people really like to see how, where politicians' views have shifted over the years. i think people like to see whether mitt romney 1994 was campaigning for welfare reform, against welfare reform, for abortion. they want to see where he was doing it during his 2002 campaign, 2007. i think people really like to see how these...
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. >> teamsters president james hoffa says labor is under attack and the 2012 presidential election will decide the fate of workforce and social issues. from the national press club in washington, d.c., this is one hour. >> thank you, madam chair is an. it's a great pleasure to be here at the press club at this auspicious time. there's so much going on in our country right now and it's a great pleasure to be a with so many friends and so may people from the media and to talk about what the issues are today. first of all i want to talk about the teamsters union a little bit, and talk about the fact that, you know, as madam president said come i was elected in march of 1999. we're very proud of what we've done in the teamsters union. we've taken this union from the union that was bankrupt, falling apart literally, and made it is what it is today. when we took over, this union was a union where sister -- local against local, joint council against joint council. there was chaos and we came in and reached out and reached out to the people that opposed us to say, enough, we cannot have a civil
. >> teamsters president james hoffa says labor is under attack and the 2012 presidential election will decide the fate of workforce and social issues. from the national press club in washington, d.c., this is one hour. >> thank you, madam chair is an. it's a great pleasure to be here at the press club at this auspicious time. there's so much going on in our country right now and it's a great pleasure to be a with so many friends and so may people from the media and to talk about...
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hoffa, is being destroyed? because i would note, the senator from illinois made an allegation impugning my motives saying that i wanted 50 million people to be denied health care. let me be clear. that statement is categorically false. i want a competitive marketplace where health care is accessible, purchased across state lines, where it is personable, portable, where people have jobs so they can get health insurance and obamacare is what's denying health insurance to millions of americans. if you don't take my word for it assume you do not con contend tt mr. hoffa is being truthful? mr. durbin: awr you are an attorney. the witness refused to answer his very own question. i've been approached by many labor unions. some of them have taft-hartley plans, some have trust fund plans, some have multistate plans and they need provisions made in the obamacare law to deal with their specific circumstances. under the ordinary course of legislative and congressional business, over the last three years, we would have addr
hoffa, is being destroyed? because i would note, the senator from illinois made an allegation impugning my motives saying that i wanted 50 million people to be denied health care. let me be clear. that statement is categorically false. i want a competitive marketplace where health care is accessible, purchased across state lines, where it is personable, portable, where people have jobs so they can get health insurance and obamacare is what's denying health insurance to millions of americans. if...
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edgar hoover and detested the jimmy hoffa bobby thought he was corrupt those people you could argue was the good reason to do test bed number four is the tragedy and that was lbj. constitutionally they were so different one was harvard-educated its who grew up rich in massachusetts the other for mixtecs grabher pour and resented anybody to talk like bobby kennedy and had they ever united in a collision they could have gotten more extraordinary things done they both wanted civil rights to end poverty in the a.d. at cross purposes leads a huge tragedy and one of the things that made lbj more determined than ever was that kennedy called for him to come out of vietnam every time he gave that anti-war speech is seen as the key would increase the bombing in north vietnam tellus sometimes you have read this >> i have read it twice. [laughter] and his wife. >> she read that five times. when he gets home he says did you read it again? [laughter] >> that was one of the things of the book. >> what lyndon johnson did was a civil-rights bill to his credit to but bobby in charge of getting it through
edgar hoover and detested the jimmy hoffa bobby thought he was corrupt those people you could argue was the good reason to do test bed number four is the tragedy and that was lbj. constitutionally they were so different one was harvard-educated its who grew up rich in massachusetts the other for mixtecs grabher pour and resented anybody to talk like bobby kennedy and had they ever united in a collision they could have gotten more extraordinary things done they both wanted civil rights to end...
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he detected jimmy hoffa that bodies out was corrupt. those people you could argue that the fourth person on his hate list was a great tragedy and that was lbj. one was a harvard it to -- harvard-educated rich and in massachusetts that grew up or and resented anybody who was harvard-educated and with that coalition they could've gotten more extraordinarily things done. and now across purposes is a huge tragedy. tuesday end vietnam but bobby would track things and with an anti-war speech it would seem like every day he increase the of bombing. >> one of the things the. >> tell them how many times you have read the book ; the layperson america there read the book twice. [laughter] pdf. >> his wife read that five times. >> but what lyndon johnson did for was to put bobby in charge. and he had bobby to blame. that is exactly the purpose that you said. and nobody better but jack kennedy filed that bill. but the only one of his advisers if you file a civil rights bill 51 to win reelection 64 imagine it is one who bobby kennedy was. essentially
he detected jimmy hoffa that bodies out was corrupt. those people you could argue that the fourth person on his hate list was a great tragedy and that was lbj. one was a harvard it to -- harvard-educated rich and in massachusetts that grew up or and resented anybody who was harvard-educated and with that coalition they could've gotten more extraordinarily things done. and now across purposes is a huge tragedy. tuesday end vietnam but bobby would track things and with an anti-war speech it would...
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bobby kennedy despised roy cone and fairly blamed all of mccarty and hateed hoover and detested jimmy hoffa, the head of the most powerful union in america which bobby thought was corrupt. those people you could argue there was a reason to detest. the fourth person to one is a great tragedy and to me that was lbj. constitutionally the guys were so different. one was a harvard educated guy who grew up rich in massachusetts, the other was a guy from east texas who grew up poor and resented anybody who was harvard-educated and talked like kennedy talked. had they ever united in a coalition, they could have gotten more extraordinary things done. they both we wanted to promote civil rights. they both wanted to end poverty and the idea that they were at cross purposes to me is a huge tragedy and i think one of the things that made the lbj more determined than ever to stay in vietnam was that bobby kennedy was calling him to come out of vietnam and bobby would track things and every time he gave a antiwar speech, it seemed like the next day lbj increased the bomb ohing of north vietnam. >> one of
bobby kennedy despised roy cone and fairly blamed all of mccarty and hateed hoover and detested jimmy hoffa, the head of the most powerful union in america which bobby thought was corrupt. those people you could argue there was a reason to detest. the fourth person to one is a great tragedy and to me that was lbj. constitutionally the guys were so different. one was a harvard educated guy who grew up rich in massachusetts, the other was a guy from east texas who grew up poor and resented...
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there is a reason why teamsters president james hoffa says obamacare is destroying the 40-hour workweek that is the backbone of the american middle class. there is a reason why the i.r.s. employees union has asked to be exempted from obamacare. these are the guys in charge of enforcing it on the rest of us. they have asked to be exempted because it's not working. the facts are clear. it's a train wreck. as the lead author, democratic senator put it, it is a train wreck. and in fact, let me share some of the tweets that have come in the preceding days. the preceding days, the american people had a chance to speak out about obamacare, and in particular there was a hashtag defund obamacare because. the last several days, americans all over this country have tweeted their reason why obamacare should be defunded. and i will note to senator lee that some months ago he and i stood on this same senate floor side by side with our dear friend, senator rand paul, supporting him in his historic filibuster on drones, and at that time i had the opportunity to read tweets that were supporting rand's f
there is a reason why teamsters president james hoffa says obamacare is destroying the 40-hour workweek that is the backbone of the american middle class. there is a reason why the i.r.s. employees union has asked to be exempted from obamacare. these are the guys in charge of enforcing it on the rest of us. they have asked to be exempted because it's not working. the facts are clear. it's a train wreck. as the lead author, democratic senator put it, it is a train wreck. and in fact, let me...
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when you have people like [inaudible] and you have james hoffa saying that obamacare is going to be a devastating to the middle class 30-hour workweek. he sees what it's doing to the union employees to see it passed. they are calling on it to be repealed. i think something is happening in america. it's a good revolution. >> we say one thing before we take the next question. does anybody this this room think that access has been improved since that bill has passed and cost has gone down. i would ask that question to anybody. i think you have to say no. let me point out some of the unintended consequences downstream if it stays in effect. i'm from a town with a medical school. i was on the faculty there for thirty years. right now in what is happening is that we are cutting graduate million education funding. there are other a thousand young doctors that graduated from medical school the last may and june that could not find a resident sincerity. that's one of the things. the demand that all corrects, small officers, large officers for the electronic health record. we nay were at the po
when you have people like [inaudible] and you have james hoffa saying that obamacare is going to be a devastating to the middle class 30-hour workweek. he sees what it's doing to the union employees to see it passed. they are calling on it to be repealed. i think something is happening in america. it's a good revolution. >> we say one thing before we take the next question. does anybody this this room think that access has been improved since that bill has passed and cost has gone down. i...
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let me remind this body of the words of james hoffa, the president of the teamsters who said obamacare is destroying the health care, and he used the word "destroying" -- destroying the health care of millions of working men and women in this country. if you don't believe me, perhaps james hoffa, who put it in writing that it is right now destroying the health care of millions of working men and women and will underscore what this fight is about. all the seniors, all the people with disabilities, all the people who are right now getting notices that they're losing their health insurance, that's what this fight is about. and at a minimum, we ought to agree on common priorities. we ought to come together today right now and fund the v.a. we ought to come together today right now and fund our reservists in the national guard. we ought to come together today right now and fund our national parks, open our memorials, stop barricading and sending police officers to prevent world war ii veterans from coming to the world war ii memorial and woman right now to fund the national institutes of he
let me remind this body of the words of james hoffa, the president of the teamsters who said obamacare is destroying the health care, and he used the word "destroying" -- destroying the health care of millions of working men and women in this country. if you don't believe me, perhaps james hoffa, who put it in writing that it is right now destroying the health care of millions of working men and women and will underscore what this fight is about. all the seniors, all the people with...
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when you have got jimmy hoffa, the president of the teamsters union, saying you're destroying the 40-hour workweek, and their cadillac health care plan, don't you think this thing can't possibly work? mr. paul: no, and i think once the bill has come due at the state level, you will have a real uproar on your hands because there is a printing press in washington that runs 24 hours a day printing money. in the state capitals, they don't have a printing press. they are limited at least to a certain extent on their borrowing. when the medicaid bills come due in kentucky, our state and other states, it is really -- i think there will be another war over obamacare, and the question then will be do we throw out the governor who increased our medicaid by 50% and bankrupted our state in the process? mr. mcconnell: well, i thank my colleague from kentucky for the opportunity to exchange some views here about the impact of this on our state and our country, and, mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. leahy: while the distinguished republican leader is still on the floor, i want to propound a unan
when you have got jimmy hoffa, the president of the teamsters union, saying you're destroying the 40-hour workweek, and their cadillac health care plan, don't you think this thing can't possibly work? mr. paul: no, and i think once the bill has come due at the state level, you will have a real uproar on your hands because there is a printing press in washington that runs 24 hours a day printing money. in the state capitals, they don't have a printing press. they are limited at least to a...
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launched investigations and so in the late 1950s this is the room where robert kennedy interrogated jimmy hoffa and other labor leaders. and his brother john f. kennedy and republican senator barry goldwater. it was for the first time that national television audiences got a chance to watch the two kennedy brothers and senator goldwater had a big impact on all of their careers. >> you can't tell us who we talk to besides you, mr. hopper and the other gentleman. i am asking you. >> you're the one who made the report to the committee and now we find that there are no records. he merely talk to you and the other gentleman involved. >> that investigation went on to about 1960 when robert kennedy became the campaign manager for his brother's presidential campaign. john f. kennedy declared it in this room and january 1960. >> senator john kennedy of massachusetts, democrat throws his hat in the ring at a press conference. >> i am today announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> a lot of the staff of the president investigation, who during the day investigative mccarthy at nig
launched investigations and so in the late 1950s this is the room where robert kennedy interrogated jimmy hoffa and other labor leaders. and his brother john f. kennedy and republican senator barry goldwater. it was for the first time that national television audiences got a chance to watch the two kennedy brothers and senator goldwater had a big impact on all of their careers. >> you can't tell us who we talk to besides you, mr. hopper and the other gentleman. i am asking you. >>...